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From CAHRO’s own Brian Levin: Study: In Wake of Terror, Anti-Muslim Crimes Escalate

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:21+00:00 December 18th, 2015|Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

Average Monthly Totals of Anti-Muslim Hate Crime Nearly Triple
In the wake of the Paris terror attacks of November, 13 that left 130 dead and the San Bernardino, Calif. terror attack of December 2 that killed 14 and left another 22 wounded, anti-Muslim hate crime attacks appear to have risen sharply across the United States to

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For American Muslims, prayers and a sensitive defense

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:23+00:00 December 4th, 2015|Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

Shortly after the news came out that the assailants in the San Bernardino shooting had ties to the local Muslim community, the national leadership of the Islamic Circle of North America gathered on a conference call.

They needed to issue a statement, but as they began to talk, they found themselves pushed into a corner. Yet

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On Web, white supremacists stir up a growing and angry audience

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:27+00:00 June 24th, 2015|Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

On July 14, 2013, a white supremacist named Andrew Anglin, bewildered by black Americans’ outrage over the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, began typing out thoughts on what he saw as a distorted world.

“The whole George Zimmerman media psycho-drama has been completely insane from the beginning,” Anglin wrote on the Daily Stormer, the neo-Nazi website

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U.S. ‘Not Cured’ of Racism, Obama Says, Citing Slavery’s Legacy

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:28+00:00 June 22nd, 2015|Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

WASHINGTON — Just days after nine black parishioners were killed in a South Carolina church, President Obamasaid the legacy of slavery still “casts a long shadow” on American life, and he said that choosing not to say the word “nigger” in public does not

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When Asian Americans Hear Hate Crime, We Think of Vincent Chin

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:28+00:00 June 22nd, 2015|Hate Crimes|

Let the hate crime investigations begin in South Carolina, though some say it’s not needed; they’ll push for the death penalty regardless.

But I say, if hate is present, we should acknowledge it, if we care about the truth. The hate crime route is worth it. It’s just not an easy journey.

Asian Americans know all too

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Why It’s So Hard to Gauge Level of Hate Crimes in U.S.

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:20+00:00 June 19th, 2015|Hate Crimes|

The fatal shooting of nine people at a historically black church in Charleston, S.C., by a white gunman has been called a hate crime by the city’s chief of police. But a civil rights nonprofit that tracks hate crimes says chronic underreporting makes it impossible to determine the extent of racially motivated incidents in South

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Mass shooting at church in Charleston resonates far beyond

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:21+00:00 June 19th, 2015|Hate Crimes, Uncategorized|

He arrived at the Calhoun Street church at 8:17 p.m., a pale, gaunt young man with a fishbowl haircut and putty-like features. He passed under the great steeple of Emanuel AME and opened the tall wooden door. He wore a gray sweatshirt and a dark pouch around his waist.

He was not entering just any church,

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Charleston Church Shooting Suspect Is Captured

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:21+00:00 June 18th, 2015|Hate Crimes|

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The gunman wanted in the killing of nine people at a prayer meeting at a historic black church in this city’s downtown area was taken into custody Thursday morning in North Carolina.

Charleston’s police chief, Greg Mullen, said the suspect, Dylann Storm Roof, 21,

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Across North Carolina, Muslim Students Take Stock of a Trying Semester

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:09+00:00 March 11th, 2015|Education, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

On the campus of the University of North Carolina here — and at nearby North Carolina State University — memories of the February killings of three young Muslims still linger.

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CAHRO’s Brian Levin: Motive Sought in Horrendous Killings of Muslim Students

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:10+00:00 February 20th, 2015|Hate Crimes, Police & Community|

The horrendous killings of three young Muslim-American university students near the University of North Carolina by an atheist man Tuesday evening has prompted authorities there to look at the incident as a possible hate crime. Initial police statements citing a dispute over a parking space as a potential motive were subsequently expanded to include a

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